Hawks, Bulls, & Sox new channel is Chicago Sports Network (CHSN)

[IU Hawks fan]

Best I can do is XFinity only like Marquee

Marquee has a DTC app now, you can pay them directly. Don't need xfinity.

 

[DisgruntledHawkFan]

Marquee has a DTC app now, you can pay them directly. Don't need xfinity.

For like $20 a month I think.

 

[Hakoon]

Stadium is based in Nashville. Reinsdorf moving the Sox there?

 

[IU Hawks fan]

For like $20 a month I think.

Yeah, less than $1 per game.

 

[OhCaptainMyCaptain]

Yeah, less than $1 per game.

You can also share the stream with someone, which I do. I don't know how many it allows up to, but my buddy and I have been sharing it without an issue.

 

[TLEH]

Ala carte sports could be good, but knowing telecomms, we'll all get f***ed.

 

[DisgruntledHawkFan]

Yeah, less than $1 per game.

Except you're paying for twelve months so it's $240 dollars to watch one baseball team if you don't cancel. Ala carte programming was the dream. If every network wants twenty bucks a month cable is better and stealing cable is too easy to not do. Like I'm trying to be a good person but if I'm already paying ESPN I shouldn't have to pay them twice to watch the Blackhawks.

 

[TLEH]

If you make it .50 a game or something, for the season. I'm giving you 81 dollars for the season. You get a ton of subscribers at that number and make your money. You start to f*** me and stealing it sounds way better and I'll give you nothing.

 

[Pez68]

Paying $20 a month to watch a baseball team is f***ing nonsense.

 

[DisgruntledHawkFan]

You can watch almost every NHL game for $70. For the year. I pay that. I pay for Cable. It's like $80 a month. Ton of channels I don't ever watch. Fine with it. I'm not paying ESPN twice to watch games on ESPN because it's on ESPN+.

 

[IU Hawks fan]

 

[IU Hawks fan]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1797644454746304644

https://x.com/i/web/status/1797647424875561317

 

[No Fun Shogun]

Clever title. /s

So we are in agreenment that CHSN is pronounced "chosen," right? As in, "We have been chosen to pay more on our cable bills."

 

[TLEH]

Wow. free over the air? Great for the locals. Makes sense. Wonder if these companies know they are losing the battle on pirating and would rather know the true numbers so they get better advertising deals?

 

[Blackhawkswincup]

What will happen if games overlap?

They better have alternative channel option like CSN Chicago did

As of right now I am waiting for the other shoe to drop to find out who gets screwed over because I refuse to believe they will actually have a free over the air platform available to masses and wont charge people $ for their new streaming service (Which is what this is even if they are trying to pretend its not)

 

[IU Hawks fan]

What will happen if games overlap?

They better have alternative channel option like CSN Chicago did

As of right now I am waiting for the other shoe to drop to find out who gets screwed over because I refuse to believe they will actually have a free over the air platform available to masses and wont charge people $ for their new streaming service (Which is what this is even if they are trying to pretend its not)

Of course you jump right to the negatives. You don't think they'll have something for overflow? C'mon man...

 

[Blackhawkswincup]

Of course you jump right to the negatives. You don't think they'll have something for overflow? C'mon man...

Takes a look at how management/ownership has handled Sox/Bulls/Hawks in recent years and expecting those people to then smoothly start a media startup from scratch is not reasonable

 

[DisgruntledHawkFan]

Of course you jump right to the negatives. You don't think they'll have something for overflow? C'mon man...

Never trust a billionaire to do something for free when they could do it for profit.

 

[No Fun Shogun]

Of course you jump right to the negatives. You don't think they'll have something for overflow? C'mon man...

Maybe this will be great. But the trend of the past couple decades has been that assuming that an entertainment product will get worse just to pad owner pockets is a safe bet.

Expect crap, and be pleasantly surprised if not crap. Good advice for this channel or a new streaming platform or the continued enshittification of existing things or continued mergers just jacking up prices and lowering quality standards.